Iran said on Monday there won't be any "halts or step-by-step agreements or temporary agreements" when nuclear talks are expected to resume in Vienna later this week.
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Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh, told reporters at a news conference in Tehran that his country won't allow its "time or energy to be wasted" by other parties involved in talks.
"We are neither in a hurry nor will we allow our time and energy to be wasted by anyone in Vienna. Hopefully, everyone will soon be able to see that our team appears in Vienna with the goal of a good agreement and we hope the opposing side appears with this same goal," he said.
Indirect talks between Washington and Tehran on reinstating their nuclear pact broke off on Friday, with both sides saying they would resume the following week, as Western officials voiced dismay at sweeping demands by the Islamic Republic.
"The next round [of talks] will commence at the end of this week. The exact day and date of which will be finalized soon," Khatibzadeh said.
Iran and major powers started talks in April aimed at bringing back Tehran and Washington into full compliance with the pact, which was abandoned by former US President Donald Trump three years ago.
But the talks stopped after the election of Iran's hardline President Ebrahim Raisi in June.
A year after Trump's reimposition of harsh sanctions on Iran, Tehran began to gradually violate nuclear limits of the agreement. Iran wants all sanctions imposed by the United States to be lifted in a verifiable process.
While stressing that the United States still wanted to revive the deal, under which Iran had limited its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions, a senior US State Department official said on Saturday time was running short.
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